Listening is hard work. It’s even an art…a lost art. And maybe the reason why our world has become so consumed with communicating our every thought and action, with trying to make ourselves heard above the noise, is that we feel as though nobody is listening. Maybe all of this crying out is a cry for significance, an attempt to make sense of who we are, of where we are, to be validated, to be taken on our own terms.

Just as evangelism requires listening for God to show us where God is already moving, so evangelism requires listening to others: shutting our own mouths, refraining from giving the "right" answers, and hearing the stories and concerns of others.